Every New Yorker knows the films of Sidney Lumet. Dark, gritty portraits of underdogs, rebels and lost men, they left an indelible mark on American cinema. Lumet, who went 0-for-5 at the Oscars before ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

In the wake of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s wonderful De Palma, a documentary concerning the life and career of director Brian De Palma, it’s difficult to look at the almost equally enjoyable By ...

Just after Sidney Lumet passed away, I received numerous e-mails from film students who fondly recalled his visits with them at Columbia University. A few remembered the emotional wallop of seeing ...

'12 Angry Men' was a very intense shooting process.

While breaking down his career with Vanity Fair, four-time Oscar-nominated actor Ethan Hawke recalled his work on Sidney Lumet's final film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, opposite Philip Seymour ...

Season 31 of "American Masters" launches Tuesday, January 3 on PBS. Film legend Sidney Lumet is one of the most accomplished, influential and revered directors in cinema history, known for films like ...

Sidney Lumet was a generational talent. Though his name is not often enough uttered with the same breath as Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, and Martin Scorsese, it probably should. Some of his films ...

“I love rebels,” filmmaker Sidney Lumet declares in Nancy Buirski’s new documentary, “By Sidney Lumet.” Indeed, the documentary derived from a series of interviews with the Oscar-nominated director ...

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Lumet in 1956. Photograph by NY Daily News via Getty Images. New York has its share of cinema-poets, but it lost a lion Saturday morning with the death of director Sidney Lumet, at the age of 86. If ...